161: Greet Death - Country Girl

I'm not sure if 'line in the sand' is quite the right term to use when talking about the new album from Greet Death - but it's certainly a new chapter. Their first full-length in six years, the album comes after a host of personal difficulties but is said to be the band's first dabbling with that most powerful of sentiments: hope.

Now a fully-fledged five-piece, the band continue to ride that woozy line between shoegaze and good ol' fashion rock n roll and 'Country Girl', the lead single from the forthcoming 'Die In Love' LP, certainly lets rip within that fiery and furrowed landscape.

Repetitive in the very best of ways, the track bursts with heavy-hearted warm blood, the whole thing swelling and growing and blossoming into something that certainly feels a lot like catharsis. And it never lets up, ploughing headfirst into the mood until every second of the song's six-minutes are accounted for.

It feels wild but somewhat tamed, buoyed by a sense of reflection rather than reflex, like they know exactly what they need to hit out at rather than simply swinging for anything in their periphery. For that reason alone the whole thing feels resoundingly human; deep-seated thoughts and feelings gathered up like simmering fireworks and then thrown back out at the world into one gorgeous mess of light and colour.

A brilliant return from a brilliant band - dig in below.

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